Do you think the Gmail UI is ugly? - Captivate General

I think the UI is so ugly and it needs a major update. It's so uncomfortable to navigate within a conversation. The "Rely" arrow? So ugly and inconsistent with the rest of the UI.
I've tried the Yahoo mail app. Even though it takes for ever to load and refresh, its UI is actually very elegant.

mwxiao said:
I think the UI is so ugly and it needs a major update. It's so uncomfortable to navigate within a conversation. The "Rely" arrow? So ugly and inconsistent with the rest of the UI.
I've tried the Yahoo mail app. Even though it takes for ever to load and refresh, its UI is actually very elegant.
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You can also make a homescreen bookmark for the gmail app. It works very well actually.

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Which Twitter app is the best?

Of the numerous Twitter apps available in the Android Market, free or paid, which one have you decided to you use after trying out the others?
I'm pretty sure most of you guys (like me) have tried multiple twitter clients for our Android phones.
I haven't tried out many, but for the longest time, twidroid pro has been the one I use.
I really like the look of twicca, but it doesn't like to refresh or takes forever to refresh, doesn't like to notify me when it is supposed to, and doesn't auto-cap the first word if you aren't mentioning someone as your first word.
I tried hootsuite (think that is the name, too lazy to care to check) for all of about ten minutes before I got tired of it.
I used tweetcaster for about 30 minutes but overall I didn't like the way it handled things when I used it (maybe those have changed now, don't know or really care)
When I did try out/use Sense ROMs a long time ago, I didn't like peep.
I haven't tried that many, but out of the ones I have tried, I have found that twidroid pro works best for what I need.
I voted for TweetCaster. I usually go back and forth between it and Twidroid, but most recently, TweetCaster has won out for its appearance. It's cleaner, a bit brighter, and does everything I need it to pretty efficiently.
I've tried Twicca, Touiteur Premium, TweestCaster Pro, Seesmic and Twidroid Pro.
Hands down Twidroid Pro is the most feature rich among all the other apps. It supports video uploading too vs the others. Plus, it supports almost all the popular Image upload services for Twitter. My problem with Twidroid Pro is most of the time, image uploading fails, regardless of which image upload service.
I like TweetCaster Pro. One problem I have with it is the ugly splash screen and there is no option for auto jump on top when it refreshes.
Twicca has the sleekest UI and I like how dialog boxes pops out. I hate how it requires plugins for twitpic.
Touiteur Premium is okay. Didn't like it that much. Best widget among the bunch though.
Twicca. Streamlined, huge feature set, easy on the eyes, free.
Touiteur, hands down.
i prefer twicca for my need..i only use twitter to read latest twit from news agency and some famous people that i like..
SubyWill said:
Touiteur, hands down.
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+1 this. I was a huge Twidroid Pro user, but once I tried Touiteur I didnt look back. I just like the way it works. Its easy, its functional and its fast.
SubyWill said:
Touiteur, hands down.
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I agree with that one.
touiteur...best UI, hands down...
Touiteur then Seesmic!
I used Twidroid Pro (Android tenor/granpa tweeter client), then Seesmic (robust, clean), quickly tried Peep (good integration with HTC Sense, part of the whole Sense experience) and Touiteur Premium (Promising, good ideas) but now I use Twicca.
- Color labels is a must have feature for me for mobile usage (I only read "important" tweets on the road). They are cleaner than Touiteur's (you can't choose your color, full line color looks awful).
- Layout of Twicca is the cleaner, it gives the best part to tweets. Toolbars are not intrusive (Seesmic tabs are too big)
- Picture/video/url shortener service integration : Seesmic is probably the best, Touiteur is poor and Twicca is nearly nowhere but it's the only one that's extensible with plugins. For URL shortening, I use URL Shortener app.
- Twicca is probably the more responsive on my Nexus one. Touiteur frequently lags on startup.
- Multi-account : Twicca is the only one that can't deal with multiple accounts
- Status update : I Frequently open the notification bar trying to open the status update bar of Touiteur. Other apps are fine.
- Notifications : great on every apps. Twicca does not tell you how many tweets, others do.
You can't make a mistake by choosing Twicca, Twidroid or Touiter. Android give us good choice
Touiteur
Looks good, works great! Nicest widget I have seen. I really like the interface!
Twicca. Color labeling allows me to group people easily. Red for family, Purple for my wife, Green Church, etc. It's amazing how much more proficient you can be, and how many of the pointless posts you can skip over. Only wish that the spell correction worked, and that you could view peoples profile pics.
I just discovered that you can put Twicca shortcuts on your homescreen.
Long press on homescreen>Shortcuts>Search/Update/User/View list
Comes in very handy when you dont need a widget taking up your homescreen space.
+1 for twicca!
Twitter Working on Official Android App
They just bought Tweetie... things that make you go Hrrrmmm.....
Mainstream users might use official Twitter app just like what happened with Facebook. But there still should be needs for advanced twitter apps. The Facebook app is a poor one. Let's see what's coming with Twitter for Android.
But will the official twitter app for Android support third party services like photo and video services uploading? I'm guessing not. Hmm..
Features I need in a Twitter app:
* multiple accounts
* ability to display the entire conversation when people are @replying to each other back and forth
* open links inside the app rather than switching to the browser
I re-downloaded Touiteur and Twicca to try them again, but they still don't meet those needs.
So far, Seesmic is the only one that does. Swift was nearly there, but then HootSuite bought it and jacked everything up.
TWICCA!! I've tried all the others, and they all suck compared to Twicca

Android 2.3!

hi friends. i know, i know this discussion is premature, but lets talk about what we want from android 2.3 ....to be a good source of inspiration for those who make it
God bless you to have the best inspiration!
Not a bad idea...
They should root it out of the box
Love. World peace.
since 2.2 had a 400-500% performance boost, 2.3 should have a 4000-5000% boostv
They've got the performance down. I think 2.3 will focus more on the user - ease of use and greater stability to compete with the iPhone. This will be shortly followed (3.0 maybe) with a whole new user interface design. They didn't hire the WebOS designer for nothing...
More than anything, I want the application's interface to look better and more unified. Like on an iOS, no matter how bad the app is, it still looks just as good as anything else. On Android, having a good looking UI is rare.
'Settings' in Froyo looks great, black background, white text, easy to navigate. But then you go to settings in Beautiful Widgets, and the text size is different, check boxes are on the left instead of right, and it's just not unified. They need a stricter standard.
I would love to see pinch-zoom on Email/gmail.
Maybe an option to display google voice SMS in the standard MMS app. A more customizable phone app, as in choosing which screen to default to and have a T9 search option... ( Like Dialer One)
Launcher Pro as standard launcher
Hold down volume to switch tracks on default music player
trillonometry said:
I would love to see pinch-zoom on Email/gmail.
Maybe an option to display google voice SMS in the standard MMS app. A more customizable phone app, as in choosing which screen to default to and have a T9 search option... ( Like Dialer One)
Launcher Pro as standard launcher
Hold down volume to switch tracks on default music player
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TREYisRAD said:
More than anything, I want the application's interface to look better and more unified. Like on an iOS, no matter how bad the app is, it still looks just as good as anything else. On Android, having a good looking UI is rare.
'Settings' in Froyo looks great, black background, white text, easy to navigate. But then you go to settings in Beautiful Widgets, and the text size is different, check boxes are on the left instead of right, and it's just not unified. They need a stricter standard.
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Yes, this is a big deal. froyo has most of the basics that people were begging for: voice dialing, apps2sd, latest opengl, etc but they really need to blow everyone away on the UI. The reason why there's so much fragmentation is because of all these custom UI's and the reason why we have those UI's is because there is a perception that Android needs them to look good.
But once you get past the first few screens and into actual apps, there's nothing to hide. There has to be a general system for UI controls for all the apps so that they can look good without much effort.
Also, in many OS's, even the controls are themable and if Google can do that, an OEM could have an Android that looks completely different all the way down but runs all the apps and they would operate the same way.
from what i've heard, there's no 2.3. Gingerbread is a major release.. Android 3.
Here a To-Do list for the android developers :
- add the possibility to hide some apps from the drawer
- add a theme manager to change theme and restore the original one more easily
- enable root automaticaly
- add a feature like "Android Guard" to lock and locate your phone with your google account
- add a backup manager, linked with your Google account which could backup all your apps and data (like Titanium Backup) to switch easily from a ROM to another or to change your android phone.
I've no more idea for the moment but here are some nice features
arctu said:
from what i've heard, there's no 2.3. Gingerbread is a major release.. Android 3.
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2.3 or 3, real flash support, that works well, not just "sort of works well"
Thread moved since it isn't development.
USB TV-Out
I would love the magnifying glass thing the iPhone has when selecting text.
arctu said:
from what i've heard, there's no 2.3. Gingerbread is a major release.. Android 3.
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that is what i thought as well...
Brian_Fr said:
Here a To-Do list for the android developers :
- add the possibility to hide some apps from the drawer
- add a theme manager to change theme and restore the original one more easily
- enable root automaticaly
- add a feature like "Android Guard" to lock and locate your phone with your google account
- add a backup manager, linked with your Google account which could backup all your apps and data (like Titanium Backup) to switch easily from a ROM to another or to change your android phone.
I've no more idea for the moment but here are some nice features
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Great ideas!!
[IO]ERROR said:
I would love the magnifying glass thing the iPhone has when selecting text.
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Sense UI has something similar... and its pretty nice (at least on my evo.
As far as suggestions for the next release...
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY AND GOOD... GIVE US A TRUE UNIFIED INBOX FOR ALL ACCOUNTS WITH PUSH ENABLED!!! (or at least the option to have a unified inbox.. this is android after all)
frettfreak said:
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY AND GOOD... GIVE US A TRUE UNIFIED INBOX FOR ALL ACCOUNTS WITH PUSH ENABLED!!! (or at least the option to have a unified inbox.. this is android after all)
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The latest update to K-9 (which I prefer over the stock email app) has this. I was quite surprised when I saw it. Though, it does exclude GMail, but I think that's because GMail inaccessible to third-parties right now.
Android wishes
I would like a task manager that links to calender. Schedule the task to when I know when I want to do it, without writing it all out again. Please.
Unified graphics would be a good look.
mr.trader said:
Not a bad idea...
They should root it out of the box
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I was randomly thinging of that earlier thtd b good
Better looking widgets / viewports in sdk so apps become better looking/ more user friendly.
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Good SMS app

I know about handcent and chomp, but what other options are there?
I'm after something a bit different, with a good popup and inbox that doesn't look so..iphone like?
deepside7 said:
I know about handcent and chomp, but what other options are there?
I'm after something a bit different, with a good popup and inbox that doesn't look so..iphone like?
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That's all you get really. And you do know Handcent has option to change EVERYTHING right? It doesn't have to be iPhone-y.
I do believe I've seen some other options on the market...but they didn't look too inviting to me, for whatever reason, at the time.
If you're considering apps that don't actually function as the app for your messaging, I use an SMS app that I enjoy and find helpful.
SMS Backup + will backup all your Text Messages to your gMail account under a label SMS. Here's the AppBrain link:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/sms-backup/com.zegoggles.smssync
miztaken1312 said:
That's all you get really. And you do know Handcent has option to change EVERYTHING right? It doesn't have to be iPhone-y.
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Yeah, I used to use it, but reverted back to stock after a while. Not sure why, but haven't really liked either option.
Just tried goSMS.. seems pretty good.. again, iphone style, but I like this one for some reason... Will see how it goes
I use SMS composer. Its free in the market, simple to use and the only non-threade SMS app I could find. Its only 500-600 kb, so less resource hungry also. Its also buggy but usable.
I still prefer threaded. The standard SMS app is good, it's threaded, but it doesn't look like i'm reading a comic.
Now I remember the reason I stopped using handcent.. It became very slow after a while to get into the inbox etc.
deepside7 said:
I still prefer threaded. The standard SMS app is good, it's threaded, but it doesn't look like i'm reading a comic.
Now I remember the reason I stopped using handcent.. It became very slow after a while to get into the inbox etc.
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I've also noticed that. But I deal with it cause the stock app was much worse for me.
miztaken1312 said:
I've also noticed that. But I deal with it cause the stock app was much worse for me.
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Give Gosms a try. It seems to be much faster so far, and i've got a reasonable amount of sms's in my inbox right now.
em,I really preffer to GO SMS,not just because its simple UI style,but also it can give me some other feels.Good!
I also tried GOSms , it seems nice, the UI,contacts and speed is better than handcent, it runs smoothly for me till now. Keep an eye on it.
Seems to have a problem with notifications.. Doesn't always play the full notification ringtone
But other than that, I like it
Yeah, for its lighter, beautiful popup window, search, contact, and even the new smileys, I will Support it!!
Have you tried PingChat? It's available on iPhone, Blackberry and on Android.
lilkidz said:
Have you tried PingChat? It's available on iPhone, Blackberry and on Android.
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That's not SMS. That's more or less another instant messaging service like AIM, Yahoo, or Windows Live.
I tried Go SMS also and like the looks, speed and small overhead compared to Handcent (which I use since I had my HTC Legend, about 7 months or so).
Problem with Go SMS, it FC's all the time for me. Sometimes every 5 minutes, without any activitiy. It just runs in the background and I receive the crash message and can make an error report.
There is nothing happening when it crashes, no SMS coming or going. When it's in the foreground it usually doesn't crash, but it's pretty unusable for me at this point. And the neon bubble colors hurt my eyes, they need to change those or give coloring options.
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I tried Go SMS also and like the looks, speed and small overhead compared to Handcent (which I use since I had my HTC Legend, about 7 months or so).
Problem with Go SMS, it FC's all the time for me. Sometimes every 5 minutes, without any activitiy. It just runs in the background and I receive the crash message and can make a error report.
There is nothing happening when it crashes, no SMS coming or going. When it's in the foreground it usually doesn't crash, but it's pretty unusable for me at this point. And the neon bubble colors hurt my eyes, they need to change those or give coloring options.
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Honestly GO-Sms is pretty solid I will admit that it's buggy but it's still being improved so theres plenty of room for improvement. Once the app stats to mature I think it will be nearly unstoppable.
Until then im sticking with handcent ...
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I'll give go sms a try!
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[APP] Arrow Dolphin HD 5 Private Beta 1

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EDIT : Woo, my 500th post! and ignore the Arrow in the title, no idea how it got there.
With this run side to side with dolphin hd 4? Will you be posting updated betas or how else do we get them?
lexluthor said:
With this run side to side with dolphin hd 4? Will you be posting updated betas or how else do we get them?
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Nope. It installed on top of my version 4. Still, pretty stable for a beta. And if i can get hold of updated betas, Ill release them too.
Thanks for the link Sacred. Been waiting for this one...
D3XX said:
Thanks for the link Sacred. Been waiting for this one...
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No problem
Hey I was just curious as to why you would recommend this over the stock browser (cm7 nightly 75). I used dolphin back when I think it was in version 3 and although impressive I didn't really see the value in it. Just wondering if anyone can provide some user experiences. Thank you so much!
Ummmm, yeeeeeah I would recommend it without a doubt. It's has the speed of a 4g stock browser i would say even on 3g and it loads pages very quickly.
I'm not impressed. It is definitely better than the stock browser which is horrid - lack of features and loads extremely slow. However when compared to my daily browser, Opera, it feels gauky.
Compared to opera it loads just as fast, displays flash just as well, webpages look just as good. But the app itself just doesn't look good.
Dolphin has the tab bar on top, which makes it easier to access, but it isn't done well. I would rather have them remove that and use the tab page they have that is similar to sense previews. It takes up too much space and is IMO ugly.
The guesture menus are a great idea. And they are easy to bring up. Again, however, I don't like how they look. Either they should take up the whole screen rather than just part. Or have a transparent background so that they are "overlaying" the webpages.
Also, I had it FC on me a couple times while loading pages and changing settings. Not an issue for me as its beta.
The one thing I really like about it over any other browser I've used it that you can change the user agent in settings easily! Opera you can, but you have to edit the opera:config and its a pain.
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I'm not impressed. It is definitely better than the stock browser which is horrid - lack of features and loads extremely slow. However when compared to my daily browser, Opera, it feels gauky.
Compared to opera it loads just as fast, displays flash just as well, webpages look just as good. But the app itself just doesn't look good.
Dolphin has the tab bar on top, which makes it easier to access, but it isn't done well. I would rather have them remove that and use the tab page they have that is similar to sense previews. It takes up too much space and is IMO ugly.
The guesture menus are a great idea. And they are easy to bring up. Again, however, I don't like how they look. Either they should take up the whole screen rather than just part. Or have a transparent background so that they are "overlaying" the webpages.
Also, I had it FC on me a couple times while loading pages and changing settings. Not an issue for me as its beta.
The one thing I really like about it over any other browser I've used it that you can change the user agent in settings easily! Opera you can, but you have to edit the opera:config and its a pain.
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Remember, its the first beta. It'll get stable over time.
I know, that's why I said the FC's weren't an issue...
Private betas are considered warez, and are not allowed to be posted.

Homescreen redraws often

Hi,
I've read a bit about the S6 having RAM issues, but I'm not sure, if that's the reason for my trouble.
When going back to the homescreen after having used an app (doesn't really matter which app), the phone lags a bit and after a second or two the homescreen comes up empty as it takes a couple of seconds for it to reload the icons and one widget that I use..
If I clear all my apps from the recent list, I can go maybe half an hour to an hour before it starts doing it again. It clearly speeds up right after I've done that.
I looks like my RAM usage varies quite quickly between 58% and 91%. Sometimes it shows that Google Play Services uses almost 600 MB as does Snapchat(!) and my browser (even though only one tab is open).
Do I need to return my phone or is this only a software problem? Does using another launcher even help anything here?
Hope you guys can help me!
Thanks in advance!
I'd use smart manager to clear all, and then clear data in application settings for Touchwiz home (This might lose all your home pages/icons/widget etc not sure. I'd then reboot the phone.
If it's still doing it after that, try Nova launcher or similar. I get not lag but the odd tiny redraw every now and again.
Ok, thanks for the tip.
I've gone over to using Google Now Launcher for a bit, and it seems to behave much better and more smooth. Unfortunately I can't use the stock clock/weather widget outside the TW Launcher.
I really hope Samsung addresses this in the next update. I was under the impression that this should have been fixed in the present release.
cawith said:
Ok, thanks for the tip.
I've gone over to using Google Now Launcher for a bit, and it seems to behave much better and more smooth. Unfortunately I can't use the stock clock/weather widget outside the TW Launcher.
I really hope Samsung addresses this in the next update. I was under the impression that this should have been fixed in the present release.
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Yeah that's a real pain. I use HD widgets while waiting on Samsung launcher to be improved. You have to pay but it's pretty good with good weather.
Jonathan-H said:
Yeah that's a real pain. I use HD widgets while waiting on Samsung launcher to be improved. You have to pay but it's pretty good with good weather.
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Yeah, actually used HD widgets as well on the Google Launcher.
For info, I exchanged my device for a new one due to the home button being loose and making the clicking noise. My new device seems not to have the memory problem like my original device, or at least far from as much/often. So must have been faulty somehow. I have exactly the same apps installed...

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